Cem Tekin

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Head of Cognitive Systems, Bandits, and Optimization Research Group (CYBORG)

Bilkent University

cemtekin(at)ee.bilkent.edu.tr

+90-312-290-2584

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Cem is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Head of the Cognitive Systems, Bandits, and Optimization Research Group (CYBORG) at Bilkent University.

He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2013 (advisor: Mingyan Liu). He also received his MS in Mathematics and MSE in Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan in 2011 and 2010, respectively. Before attending the University of Michigan, he received his BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (valedictorian) from METU in 2008. From February 2013 to January 2015, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA (advisor: Mihaela van der Schaar). He received the Fred W. Ellersick Award for the best paper in MILCOM 2009, the Science Academy Association of Turkey Distinguished Young Scientist (BAGEP) Award in 2019, Parlar Foundation Research Incentive Award in 2019, IEEE Turkey Chapter Research Incentive Award in 2020, Bilkent University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2023, and TÜBA-GEBİP Award in 2023. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Cem has authored or co-authored over 70 research papers, 5 book chapters, and a research monograph. He has served as a reviewer for numerous journals, including JMLR, Machine Learning, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE JSTSP and IEEE JSAC.

He has served as an area chair for AISTATS-24 and AISTATS-23. He has been actively reviewing for top ML conferences, including NeurIPS-24, ICML-24, ICLR-24, NeurIPS-23, ICML-23, NeurIPS-22, ICML-22, ICLR-22, AISTATS-22, NeurIPS-21, ICML-21, AISTATS-21, NeurIPS-20, ICML-20.

Cem's research interests include bandit problems, reinforcement learning, artificial intelligence for medicine, multi-agent systems, stream mining, influence maximization and cognitive communications.